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Lindsay Davidson studied at the Reid School of Music in the University of Edinburgh - the first person in the world to finish any music academy majoring as a ‘piper. He continued his post-graduate studies with the double specialisation in composition and computer sound synthesis in 1996 and shortly afterwards started his pedagogical and performing activities founding several pipe bands and a music school for which he developed a new system of teaching piping, adopted across the world. He gave this up to spend time in Poland with his wife Irena.  His 'teach yourself bagpipes' site is one result of this.  He has also prepared a short teach yourself species counterpoint  course*.

In 2007 Lindsay received his PhD in Musical Composition with a thesis called "Towards A Fusion Of Western Classical/Contemporary And Traditional Scots Bagpipe Composition Techniques: “Manntaireachd” and a large body of compositions. For more information about this, please download this short essay - as a pdf.

Lindsay Davidson has held the honorary positions of Clan Piper since 1992 and from 1987 till 2001 was “Town Piper to Linlithgow” (his home town). In  Autumn 2004, after a great many commissions, was appointed composer to the Court of the Baron of Ardgowan. He is also 'Musician in Residence' for the British International School of Cracow.

Lindsay also translates and proof reads documents from Polish to English. This started as a music only service but is now available for other types of text. Clients have included festivals, events organisers and publishers such as PWM.

Call For Scores - Celtic Triangle are seeking new compositions for any bagpipes (smallpipes in A, Bflat, C or D, chromatic borderpipes in A, highland pipes in A and Bflat), harp (pedal harp or lever harp), soprano and up to two other instruments. We would like to record a new CD of contemporary music for such an ensemble, and obviously, need material. For information on how to write for bagpipes, and submission of proposals/scores, please contact Lindsay by email. Some basic information on how to write for highland bagpipes can be found here and smallpipes here.


If you would like to buy mp3 tracks of Lindsay's music, you can do so via Soundclick.


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